Nature

Can brain natriuretic peptide levels aid diagnosis in children with congenital heart disease?

The prognostic value of brain natriuretic peptide (BNP) levels has been established in adults with congestive heart failure. There is evidence to suggest that plasma BNP levels could also be useful in ...
Nature

Can brain natriuretic peptide be used to diagnose and manage patients with diastolic heart failure?

Normal BNP or N-terminal pro-BNP levels in patients with exertional dyspnea reliably exclude significant systolic dysfunction, but are less accurate in detecting or excluding predominant diastolic ...
Medscape

B-Type Natriuretic Peptide: A New Tool in the Armamentarium Used to Accurately Diagnose Heart Failure

Nearly 5 million Americans have heart failure (HF). Making a correct diagnosis early is an important component in the multifaceted approach to detection and/or treatment of this disease. The US Food ...

Blood Test May Help Identify High-Risk Patients With Inherited Heart Disease

BNP may help doctors identify HCM patients at highest risk of serious heart complications, improving monitoring and treatment ...
Medscape

Natriuretic Peptides in Heart Failure: Should Therapy be Guided by BNP Levels?

A natriuretic-peptide-guided approach to the management of HF was first tested in a pilot study of 69 patients in Christchurch, New Zealand by Troughton and colleagues. [41] In this study, outpatients ...
The American Journal of Managed Care

BNP Levels May Not Be Effective Prognostic Tool for Patients With Cardiogenic Shock Using VADs

While B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP) levels remain high in patients with end-stage heart failure with cardiogenic shock, these levels lose their prognostic value in patients using ventricular assist ...
TCTMD

BNP levels predict major adverse cardiovascular events in patients with moderate aortic stenosis: implications for aortic valve replacement

Self expanding intra annular transcatheter aortic valves have similar thirty day transvalvular gradients compared to supra annular valves Receive the the latest news, research, and presentations from ...